From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 14 11:38:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA06223 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 11:38:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rain.futuresouth.com (rain.futuresouth.com [198.79.79.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA06216 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 11:37:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stormy@rain.futuresouth.com) Received: (from stormy@localhost) by rain.futuresouth.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA21437 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 13:37:38 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from stormy) Message-ID: <19981014133737.E10598@futuresouth.com> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 13:37:37 -0500 From: Stormy Henderson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help! anyone! Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <00c101bdf797$f1299b00$6e8067cf@clavikal.voicenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <00c101bdf797$f1299b00$6e8067cf@clavikal.voicenet.com>; from Mr. Shannon Kurtas on Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 01:27:37PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A happy camper (Mr. Shannon Kurtas, clavikal@voicenet.com) once wrote... > using the "X User" setting. I configured X Windows like it told me > to. So after all that I finally get to UNIX. I type in "startx" and > I get this mumbo jumbo... > > # startx > execve failed for /usr/X11R6/bin/X (errno 2) It can't find your X11 server, either because you didn't install one (like XF86_S3 or XF86_SVGA), or you didn't have the install program create the X link for you. /usr/X11R6/bin/X should be a soft link to your X server, mine says: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 7 Sep 24 19:11 X@ -> XF86_S3 If you installed an X11 server, you can create the link yourself: ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_putyourserverhere /usr/X11R6/bin/X Be happy... -- http://www.futuresouth.com/~stormy/signature.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message